Gary Brecka and others describe early perimenopause symptoms like mood shifts, exhaustion, brain fog, and loss of libido. A DUTCH hormone test revealed the biological cause and prompted necessary hormone checks. They share personal stories of frozen shoulder and other symptoms that improved once diagnosed.
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When you're in your 30s, you're not thinking about menopause. I kept thinking, I'm not old enough to be in. It turns out you can be in perimenopause in your 30s.
The issue with menopause is that lots.
Of things can crash at the same time. One of the things we noticed was rapid shift.
In mood, exhaustion in the.
Morning, brain fog.
Libido left the building, and you were.
Just not the same person.
And I think it was just like a feeling of being overwhelmed constantly. And I kept thinking it was because of something else. And I think the main thing that forced us to really look at it was my frozen shoulder. My arm was stuck right here for almost nine months.
And just so you know, we were doing all the things. Red light therapy.
Sauna, cold, plunging.
We have a hyperbaric chamber. She eats extremely clean.
When I went to doctors, so we tried acupuncture, cupping, physical therapy. I mean, we tried so much stuff.
When we did this Dutch test, getting that test was a game changer. When it came back, it explained everything.
And I remember, like, crying with you when we got all these results back, because you saw it finally. It wasn't just me saying, I don't feel good. You were, holy cow. I can see it in the science.